Word: sores
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...Beijing won the Games easily. In voting that could have gone four rounds, the capital captured an outright majority of 56 ballots in the second. Paris, a top rival, polled a paltry 18 votes?four behind the other front-runner, Toronto. French politicians immediately acted like sore losers, and pointed to the problems that have dogged China's bid from the start. "I am saddened for Paris, but ashamed for the Olympics," said centrist parliamentarian Alain Madelin, who added that China deserves a gold medal for violating human rights...
...Sore throats are a very normal symptom of rhinoplasty...
...have a sore throat...
Blake not only despised the way Reynolds painted, but also he was sure Reynolds' malign influence had blasted his career. The sore truth seems to be that Reynolds had scarcely heard of Blake, and would not have felt threatened by him anyway. But time was on Blake's side. Does any Reynolds fix itself in memory with the tragic vividness of Blake's watercolor of King Nebuchadnezzar, a taloned half-beast on all fours, glaring from the confines of his intolerable fate like an animal in a cage? Blake believed he had been appointed by supreme powers to render...
TRYING HARD NOT TO BE SORE WINNERS...